the economy is improving, just slowly. that is why you are not seeing everyone who wants to get a job get a job. we still have too many people looking for work for the available positions. somehow we need employers to create more jobs. that is obviously the big question of the recovery, what drives job creation and what is the spark that will get us out of this period of slow growth. we have not been able to find an answer to that. we found a lot of explanations so far of what might be holding employers that, whether consumers who are constrained by weak credit or events abroad in europe or china, holding back demand for companies that export, or could be conditions in the united states that our lawmakers have created, whether through regulation or fiscal policy or some of the other constraints. host: john wohlford, let's look at white-collar, professional and business service hires. may of 2006, 7 years ago. the most recent figures, the spring of 2013. guest: what we have seen in professional business services is it tends